Smuggler, who hid drugs near Boy Scout camp, convicted

A Federal Way man was convicted Friday of possession of cocaine with intent to distribute after authorities said stashing two backpacks full of cocaine near the entrance to a Boy Scout camp in Maple Falls near the Canadan border.

Leroy Carr, 47, will face a minimum of 10 years in prison when he is sentenced in January in U.S. District Court in Seattle, according to prosecutors.

Carr told authorities in August 2007 that he had placed the drugs in brush near the Boy Scout camp. He wanted the government to put out a news release stating that police had seized the drugs so his drug bosses would not retaliate against him for stealing them, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said.

At trial Carr recanted and denied that he had ever possessed the drugs.